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Thank you all for the many comments, questions and suggestions. Particular thanks go to user x.15a2 for constantly monitoring, replying and helping so many users here. To continue these discussions, please head over to the DuckDuckGo subreddit.

Hi there, I am the developer of the DDG search bar. I was able to replicate your issue, and I just fixed it. Try re-downloading the extension and the bar should lose keyboard focus if you search and open something in a background tab or the same tab.